to form one:  his frankness and generosity, and the manner in which his habits identified him with his soldiers, endeared him to the army; while his religious feelings and exercises, and the habit of participating in some of their superstitions, sanctified him in the eyes of the men, and gave him unbounded influence.  Some of the anecdotes with which we have met exhibit feelings for which we were but little inclined to give the devoted warrior credit, for most certainly we should never have sought in rude camps, and among wild Cossacks, for gentle affections and tender emotions; and yet even there they may be found; and we see that he whose whole existence was nearly an uninterrupted series of military exploits, was by no means devoid of those congenial sympathies which make up the charm of domestic life....  This is the more worthy of observation, as he has been regarded by many as something not far removed from an ogre—­an impression which the barbarous warfare carried on between the Turks and Cossacks, in which he took such a prominent part, seemed to justify; coupled as it has been, too, with the story of his having packed up in a sack the heads of the Janissaries who had fallen by his hand, for the purpose of laying them at the feet of his general.  The spirit of the times, and of those with whom his lot was cast, must be looked to as some palliation for the savage conflicts in which he was engaged.  That they had not hardened his heart against all tender emotions is surprising.

Pierre Alexis Wasiltowitch, Count Suwarrow, was born in 1730, in Moscow, according to his biographer, of a Swedish family.  He began his military career when but twelve years of age, having been placed in the School of Young Cadets in St. Petersburgh by his father.  He was a mere boy when he entered the Russian service as a private soldier.  For some years he was not advanced beyond the rank of a subaltern.  From the earliest age the decision and originality of his character were developed, and he was not long in perceiving his own superiority to those by whom he was commanded.  This conviction rendered the control to which he was forced to submit extremely distasteful, and made him determine to raise himself from a subordinate situation.  To determine was to achieve, in one possessed of his powers of mind and matchless energy.  The singularity of his bearing was very remarkable, and as he lost no opportunity of rendering it conspicuous, it soon attracted observation, which was all that was necessary for the discovery of the extraordinary intellectual powers which he possessed.  Thus recommended by his superior abilities, his advancement was rapid.  Before he was twenty-nine he was a lieutenant-colonel.  His reliance on his own unaided powers was so entire, that he could ill brook the thought of considering himself bound by obedience to any one.  When speaking at a later period on the subject, he said, “When my sovereign does me the honor to give me the command of her armies,